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A Look at the Fallacy[edit]

Logical fallacies: Fallacy; List of fallacies; Anangeon; Appeal to probability; Argumentum a contrario; Argumentum ad captandum; Broken window fallacy; Parable of the broken window; Cartesian circle; Category mistake; Conditional probability; Confusion of the inverse; Conjunction fallacy; Courtier's Reply; Deductive fallacy; Definist fallacy; Descriptive fallacy; Double counting; Drinking the Kool-Aid; Ecological fallacy; Fallacies of definition; Fallacy of distribution; Fallacy of quoting out of context; False attribution; False equivalence; False premise; Greedy reductionism; Halo effect; Historical fallacy; Homunculus argument; If-by-whiskey; Inconsistent triad; Infinite regress; Intensional fallacy; Jingle-jangle fallacies; Mathematical fallacy; Moving the goalposts; Nirvana fallacy; Non sequitur; Package-deal fallacy; Politician's syllogism; Post disputation argument; Prosecutor's fallacy; Proving too much; Psychologist's fallacy; Reification; Relativist fallacy; Retrospective determinism; Spurious relationship; Sunk costs; Survivorship bias; Third-cause fallacy; Three men make a tiger; Trivial objections; Truthiness; Van Gogh fallacy
Logical fallacies - Formal fallacies: Formal fallacy; Masked man fallacy; Circular reasoning
Logical fallacies - Formal fallacies - Propositional fallacies in propositional logic: Affirming a disjunct; Affirming the consequent; Denying the antecedent; False dilemma
Logical fallacies - Formal fallacies - Quantificational fallacies in quantificational logic: Existential fallacy; Proof by example; Quantifier shift
Logical fallacies - Formal fallacies - Syllogistic fallacies: Syllogism; Syllogistic fallacy; Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise; Converse accident; A dicto simpliciter; Fallacy of exclusive premises; Fallacy of four terms; Fallacy of necessity; Fallacy of the undistributed middle; Illicit contrary; Illicit major; Illicit minor; Illicit subalternation; Illicit subcontrary; Immediate inference; Negative conclusion from affirmative premises; Superalternation
Logical fallacies - Inductive fallacies: Faulty generalization; Availability heuristic; Blind men and an elephant; Cherry picking; Confirmation bias; Counterinduction; Hasty generalization; Idola fori; Idola theatri; Idola specus; Idola tribus; McNamara fallacy; Misleading vividness; Motivated reasoning; Overwhelming exception; Slippery slope; Slothful induction
Logical fallacies - Informal fallacies: Informal fallacy; Absence paradox; Anecdotal evidence; Begging the question; Complex question; Continuum fallacy; Correlative-based fallacies; Credo quia absurdum; Denying the correlative; Fallacy of relative privation; Falsism; Furtive fallacy; Historian's fallacy; Hot-hand fallacy; I'm entitled to my opinion; Incomplete comparison; Inconsistent comparison; Kettle logic; Loaded question; Mind projection fallacy; Misology; Missing dollar riddle; Name calling; One-sided argument; Overbelief; Parade of horribles; Presentism; Rationalization; Suggestive question; Suppressed correlative; Truth by consensus
Logical fallacies - Informal fallacies - Causal fallacies: Questionable cause; Animistic fallacy; Circular reference; Circular reporting; Correlation does not imply causation; Fallacy of prescience; Fallacy of the single cause; Gambler's conceit; Gambler's ruin; Inverse gambler's fallacy; Post hoc ergo propter hoc; Regression fallacy; Texas sharpshooter fallacy; Wrong direction
Logical fallacies - Informal fallacies - Causal fallacies - Magical thinking: Magical thinking; Folk religion; Illusion of control; Law of contagion; Obsessive–compulsive disorder; Performativity; Placebo; Placebo button; Psychological theories of magic; Magic and religion; Segen; Wish fulfillment
Logical fallacies - Informal fallacies - Causal fallacies - Types of scientific fallacy: Cargo cult science; Fabrication; Just-so story; Pathological science; Politicization of science; Pseudoscience; Pseudoskepticism; Psychobabble; Scientific misconduct; Valence effect; Voodoo Science
Logical fallacies - Informal fallacies - Causal fallacies - Types of scientific fallacy - Cognitive biases: Cognitive bias; List of cognitive biases; Accentuation effect; Acquiescence bias; Adaptive bias; Affect heuristic; Ambiguity effect; Anchoring; Apophenia; Attentional bias; Attitude polarization; Attribute substitution; Attribution bias; Belief bias; Ben Franklin effect; Bias blind spot; Black-dog bias; The Century of the Self; Certainty effect; Clustering illusion; Cognitive bias mitigation; Cognitive closure; Cognitive dissonance; Cognitive distortion; Congruence bias; Conservatism; Contrast effect; Cultural bias; Curse of knowledge; Data dredging; Déformation professionnelle; Deindividualisation; Denomination effect; Distinction bias; Dunning–Kruger effect; Duration neglect; Egocentric bias; Emotion regulation and eating; Empathy gap; Endowment effect; Exaggeration; Experimenter's regress; Extension neglect; Extrinsic incentives bias; False-consensus effect; Familiarity heuristic; Fluency heuristic; Forer effect; Fundamental attribution error; Group attribution error; Group-serving bias; Hawthorne effect; Hedonistic relevance; Heuristics in judgment and decision making; Hyperbolic discounting; Hypocognition; Ikea Effect; Illusion of asymmetric insight; Illusion of external agency; Illusion of transparency; Illusion of validity; Illusory correlation; Illusory superiority; Impact bias; Implicit cognition; In-group favoritism; Inequity aversion; Information bias; Information bias; Insensitivity to sample size; Introspection illusion; John Henry effect; Just-world hypothesis; Lady Macbeth effect; Less-is-better effect; Locus of control; Loss aversion; Lost in the mall technique; Ludic fallacy; Mindset; Minimisation; Mistakes Were Made; Money illusion; Moral credential; Naïve cynicism; Naïve realism; Name–letter effect; Negativity bias; Negativity effect; Neglect of probability; Normalcy bias; Nudge theory; Observer-expectancy effect; Omission bias; Optimism bias; Ostrich effect; Othello error; Out-group homogeneity; Outcome bias; Overjustification effect; Pareidolia; Peak–end rule; Perceptual psychology; Pessimism bias; Physical attractiveness stereotype; Planning fallacy; Pollyanna principle; Positive illusions; Positivity offset; Post-purchase rationalization; Precision bias; Pseudocertainty effect; Psychological pricing; Psychological projection; Publication bias; Pygmalion effect; Reactive devaluation; Realism theory; Recall bias; Recency principle; Response bias; Restraint bias; Rhyme-as-reason effect; Scarcity heuristic; Scope neglect; Selective perception; Self-deception; Self-defeating prophecy; Self-fulfilling prophecy; Self-propaganda; Self-reference effect; Self-serving bias; Serial position effect; Social comparison bias; Spacing effect; Straight and Crooked Thinking; Subadditivity effect; Subject-expectancy effect; Subjective validation; Time-saving bias; Trait ascription bias; True-believer syndrome; Well travelled road effect; Woozle effect; Worse-than-average effect; Zero-risk bias
Logical fallacies - Informal fallacies - Causal fallacies - Types of scientific fallacy - Cognitive biases - Framing (social sciences)‎: Framing; Framing effect; Agenda-setting theory; Hostile media effect; Prospect theory
Logical fallacies - Informal fallacies - Causal fallacies - Types of scientific fallacy - Cognitive biases - Framing (social sciences)‎ - Framing theorists: Judith Butler; Erving Goffman; Daniel Kahneman; Jim A. Kuypers; George Lakoff; Frank Luntz; Steven Poole; Sheldon Rampton; Dietram Scheufele; George Soros; John Stauber; Amos Tversky
Logical fallacies - Informal fallacies - Causal fallacies - Types of scientific fallacy - Cognitive biases - Memory biases‎: List of memory biases; Childhood amnesia; Choice-supportive bias; Cryptomnesia; Cue-dependent forgetting; Fading affect bias; Functional fixedness; Gender differences in eyewitness memory; Generation effect; Google effect; Hindsight bias; Levels-of-processing effect; Memory inhibition; Mere-exposure effect; Misinformation effect; Modality effect; Overconfidence effect; Picture superiority effect; Positivity effect; Reminiscence bump; Rosy retrospection; Selective memory loss; Selective omission; Self-referential encoding; Serial memory processing; Telescoping effect; Von Restorff effect; Bluma Zeigarnik
Logical fallacies - Informal fallacies - Conformity: Conformity; Abilene paradox; Anticonformity; Asch conformity experiments; Bandwagon effect; Communal reinforcement; Compliance; Deindividuation; Dominant ideology; General Group Problem Solving (GGPS) Model; Group cohesiveness; Groupthink; Hofling hospital experiment; Identification; Information cascade; Internalisation; Irving Janis; The Lonely Crowd; Milgram experiment; Mindguard; Mores; Norm; Normative social influence; Obedience; Self-censorship; Sheeple; Social proof; Socialization; Spiral of silence; Spreadthink; Stanford prison experiment; Status quo bias; System justification
Logical fallacies - Informal fallacies - Relevance fallacies: Relevance; Ignoratio elenchi; Accident; Appeal to consequences; Appeal to nature; Argument from fallacy; Argument from ignorance; Argument from silence; Argument to moderation; Argumentum ad baculum; Base rate fallacy; Bulverism; Chewbacca defense; Chronological snobbery; Double-barreled question; Etymological fallacy; Evidence of absence; False analogy; Gambler's fallacy; Invincible ignorance fallacy; Moralistic fallacy; Proof by assertion; Red herring; Special pleading; Straw man; The squeaky wheel gets the grease; Two wrongs make a right
Logical fallacies - Informal fallacies - Relevance fallacies - Appeals to emotion: Appeal to emotion; Appeal to fear; Appeal to flattery; Appeal to loyalty; Appeal to novelty; Appeal to pity; Appeal to ridicule; Appeal to spite; Think of the children; Flag-waving; Invented here; Island mentality; Not invented here; Wisdom of repugnance; Wishful thinking
Logical fallacies - Informal fallacies - Relevance fallacies - Genetic fallacies: Genetic fallacy; Ad hominem; Appeal to accomplishment; Appeal to motive; Appeal to tradition; Argument from authority; Argumentum ad crumenam; Argumentum ad lapidem; Argumentum ad lazarum; Argumentum ad populum; Association fallacy; Ipse dixit; Naturalistic fallacy; Poisoning the well; Pro hominem; Reductio ad Hitlerum; Tu quoque
Logical fallacies - Informal fallacies - Verbal fallacies: Amphibology; Fallacy of composition; Fallacy of division; Equivocation; Loki's Wager; No true Scotsman
Unclassified: Logical form; Propositional calculus; Quantification; Ad nauseam; Philosophic burden of proof; Moral high ground; Fact–value distinction; Proof by intimidation; Duane Gish; Argument; Pathetic fallacy; Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism; Judgmental language; Godwin's law; Camel's nose; Reductio ad absurdum; Sophistical Refutations; List of incomplete proofs; Circular definition; Division by zero; Proposition; List of politically motivated renamings; Propaganda model; Too Much 4 Much; We're Only in It for the Money; Experimenter's bias; Scientific method; Reason; Richard Whately; Sophism; Card stacking; Deductive reasoning; Validity; Paul E. Meehl; Gary Larson; Novum Organum; Francis Bacon; John Stuart Mill; Jeremy Bentham; List of paradoxes; Cogency; Demagogue; Evidence; False statement; Paradox; Soundness; Truth; Victim blaming; Attacking Faulty Reasoning; Argumentation theory; Aristotle; William of Ockham; Jean Buridan; Arthur Schopenhauer; False precision; Sampling bias; Vagueness; Ambiguity; Logic; Rhetoric; List of common misconceptions; Prior probability; Logical disjunction; Antecedent; Consequent; Indicative conditional; Categorical proposition; Middle term; There are known knowns; Is–ought problem; Direct reference theory; Outline of public relations; Ad hoc; Counterexample; Universal; Exception that proves the rule; Loaded language; Epistemic commitment; Euphemism; Persuasive definition; Quibble; The Merchant of Venice; Word sense; Meaning; Polysemy; Semantic change; Referent; Paradox of thrift; Voting paradox; Monty Hall problem; Selection bias; False positive paradox; Law of averages; Logical consequence; Premise; Causality; Probability; Conclusion; William Frankena; G. E. Moore; J. L. Austin; Truth condition; Simpson's paradox; Milton Mayer; Truth value; Falsifiability; Inference objection; Co-premise; John Dewey; Regress argument